Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, STEPHEN (d. 1794), revived the defunct 17th century Baptist church at Carmarthen Gate church, now at Tabernacle chapel. But Davies and his party kept their hold on the Priory Street meeting-place, and also on Tŷ Coch in Llangynog parish, and duly ordained Davies as their pastor - not before 1778, however (Joshua Thomas, op. cit., 67), did the Baptist Association grant them formal incorporation. A chapel was built in Priory Street in 1786 - -the predecessor of the present Penuel
DAVIES, THOMAS RHYS (1790 - 1859), Baptist minister ) about some property, he severed his connection with the Baptists and joined the Wesleyans, but he returned to his old denomination in 1826. He was at Glynceiriog (1827-9), Stanhope Road, Liverpool, where he erected a chapel (1829-35), and Kilgerran (1835-43). In 1843 he returned to North Wales and settled at Glanwydden. He was now able to devote himself to his favourite role of itinerant preacher, and
DAVIES, WILLIAM (Mynorydd; 1826 - 1901), sculptor and musician attended singing classes arranged by John Thomas (Ieuan Ddu, 1795 - 1871). He became leader of the Welsh Choral Society after Dan Jones. As a sculptor he exhibited about 40 times at the Royal Academy. He made busts of many Welsh preachers, and statues, that of Thomas Charles of Bala, now in front of the Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Bala, being his work. He died 22 September 1901, and was buried in the
DAVIES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Teilo; 1831 - 1892), man of letters, poet, and historian The Literature of the Kymry by Thomas Stephens, but was never published (the manuscript is now in the National Library of Wales). He was a frequent contributor to the periodicals of his time, and a novel written by him appeared in Y Byd Cymreig, 1862. He published his Llandilo-Vawr and its Neighbourhood, 1858, and Traethawd ar Caio a'i Hynafiaethau, 1862. A volume of his poetry, Gweithiau Gwilym
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor 2019, aged 88. His role in It Ain't Half Hot Mum led to several catch phrases, and he now has an internet meme - a dryly delivered 'Oh Dear. How Sad. Never Mind'.
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, manuscripts, many of which are now deposited in the N.L.W. Among them is the famous ' Book of Llan Dav,' which is fully described by E. D. Jones in N.L.W. Jnl., iv, 123 et seq. Part of the collection was briefly described by John Cordy Jeaffreson in the Appendix (pp. 418-26) to the Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part i, 1877-8, and in the Annual Report of the N.L.W. for 1946
DAVIS family, coalowners , Davis had taken a lease of valuable steam-coal seams on the Blaen-gwawr estate at Aberaman, and began sinking a pit there in 1843, using first (1845) the canal and, afterwards (1847), the new Taff Vale Railway to get his coal down to Cardiff. Leaving the Hirwaun shop in charge of his second son, Lewis (below), he now placed his eldest son, David (below), in a shop at Trecynon (Aberdare); and as a
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster Commentary and published two Welsh sermons, 1832 and 1848. He died 28 November 1860. His very interesting diaries are now in the National Library - NLW MS 5487-99. There was another TIMOTHY DAVIS (1709 - 1771), minister of Cilgwyn, Cardiganshire, and its associated congregations. He married in 1740 Mary (or Sarah), daughter of Jenkin Jones (1695 - 1725), also minister of Cilgwyn, who was son of John Jones
DAWKINS, Sir WILLIAM BOYD (1837 - 1929), geologist and antiquary sometimes by man. He took part (with J. Magens Mello) in excavating a cave in Cresswell Crags near Worksop and again demonstrated the contemporaneity of man with animals now extinct, and discovered a piece of bone with an incised representation of the head of a horse - the first example of the art of cave-man to be found in Britain. His work in this field was summarized in Cave Hunting, 1874, and Early
DODD, CHARLES HAROLD (1884 - 1973), biblical scholar in a world beyond time and space. Later, in The Coming of Christ (1951), in discussing the second coming he states that it is an event beyond history. Yet, there is little doubt that he modified his earlier position and was obliged to concede that there remained something to be hoped for. The Johannine phrase 'the time is coming and now is' has been suggested as summing up his mature view on the
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, Abbot, bishop of London, in 1607, he became successively vicar of Hackney (1619) and Llangernyw (1621), and prebendary of S. Asaph (1626), and was elected a capital burgess of Denbigh in 1627. On the death of Lewis Bayly, he was elected to the vacant see of Bangor, receiving consecration at the hands of Abbot, now archbishop of Canterbury (March 1632), and resigning his living of Llangernyw. He was a
DOWNMAN, JOHN (1749 - 1824), painter . He died 24 December 1824, aged 74, at Wrexham. Editorial note 2023: John Downman is now known to have been born in Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire, and was baptized there on 12 September 1749. He is believed to have attended a school at Ruabon in Denbighshire.

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